How Do You Deal with Stress?

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I've had a really stressful week at work, and lately, I've been finding myself doing a lot of online shopping (when I have the chance, that is) and surfing TPF... How do you all deal with stress? Do you find yourself buying unnecessary things, as I do?

Thank you God.

yeah well retail therapy is one thing - but ive seen it never helps even if u buy loads ur back to square one -
one thing helps me alot is cooking! i love to cook and occasionaly when im stressfull i cook and make a tasty dish for all my family (of 9 people lol) and its real fun!

but i guess this can only help if u love cooking, know how to cook and have two assistant cooks in the kitchen lol!!

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Usually shopping!! This year though has been so stressfull that I lost interest in that and just stayed holed up in my house, up until this month. I guess I'm starting to feel better if at least I feel like shopping.

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A taste for the arts

If I don't shop to alleviate stress, I cook a complicated meal (sounds counterintuitive but it works). I like preparing meals. Or, I go for a manicure and a pedicure. Other than that, I reach out to friends and talk.

Sentient IMBUSILE

Watching Trash TV, finding some ugly or mediocre object and giving it an acrylic paint n' polyurethane makeover, having a bubble bath while listening to Verdi operas turned up real loud and singing along...

If it is really bad, I put on unlikely combinations of eyeshadow and go outside to frighten passing neighbor children, whom I then decorate with temporary tattoos and stick-on piercing bling, and send on their way, while I position myself discreetly to watch hilarity ensue as they go home to surprise their mothers.

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Retail therapy helps me out a lot, and I like to take bubble baths nightly. Also going down to the barn and cleaning my horses stall is very stress relieving. There is something very therapeutic about shoveling horse sh!t!